Today's student must learn to code. Yet, many districts struggle to implement comprehensive coding programs that work for students in various schools and grades, and that keep up with advancing technology.
Mosaic District Progress Monitoring's new feature, Metric Zoom, extends Mosaic's analytical capabilities by allowing deeper drill-downs into a school system's data. Leaders will be able to view up to five years of data, compare and filter results, and more.
The Kentucky Senate passed a school safety bill that calls for the creation of a state school security marshal position and development of a school security risk assessment tool, among other measures. The bill comes one year after two students were killed in a shooting at Marshall County High School in Benton.
More Mississippi students than ever before are gaining access to high-quality early learning this year thanks to increased funding for the state's pre-K program. One big reason is the strong data on education outcomes that have been collected and shared in the state.
Any high school can apply for the grants. Five schools will be selected to receive $500,000 each from XQ to redesign their schools. The money can be used to implement the new high school design, which might call for changing the class schedule, using technology in new ways or expanding career and technical opportunities.
A new report from Michigan State University analyzed long-term education spending trends. The report found that in every state but two—Michigan and West Virginia—education revenue increased from 1995 to 2015. But it is often assumed that this additional spending will be good for students, but the data suggest that increased funding by itself has little relationship to student achievement growth.
The New York district named Nicole M. Wolfe, the current assistant superintendent for business and elementary education, as the new superintendent. She replaces Union-Endicott CSD's Suzanne McLeod.
A long road lies ahead for a North Dakota bill that proposes paying off school district debt and funding new or the expansion of common school and rural property facilities with assets from the Common Schools Trust Fund.
getAbstract is now offering free access to its online library to students over the age of 16. Students will have access to a growing database of 18,000 abstracts covering topics such as career planning, economics, business, management, science, technology and politics.
StudySync announced its content partnership with The Players' Tribune. Through the partnership, StudySync is incorporating first-person narratives from a set of international athletes into its core StudySync ELA curriculum, as well as its Blasts assignments.
